Teachers are seeing text slang show up in school work.
Students used to texting on their smart phones are using abbreviations and other shortcuts in their assignments.
Jeni McAnally teaches English at Columbia River High School in Washington state.
She says L-O-L, for laugh out loud, doesn't belong in an essay.
Ben Lyons, a senior at Heritage High, agrees.
He tells The Columbian newspaper students use the text slang because they're lazy.
